The Magazine
May / June 2007
Articles
- Cover Story
- Rules of Engagement
- A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.
- By John Laurence
- Feature
- Style Over Substance
- Despite Indias media boom, its journalism is shrinking.
- By Basharat Peer
- Feature
- The Shield Bearer
- How a conservative congressman from Indiana became journalisms best ally in the fight to protect anonymous sources.
- By Bree Nordenson
- Feature
- The Curious Case of Victor Pey
- Why the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.
- By John Dinges
- Feature
- Soldiers Stories
- What fires up the journalists at Military Times is the vulnerability of the community they cover
- By Alia Malek
Ideas + Reviews
- Review
- The Flaw of Averages
- How polls obscure America’s many social patchworks
- By Rick Perlstein
- Review
- A Place at the Table
- Setting the record straight on early black journalists
- By Cynthia Tucker
- Second Read
- On the Rocks
- Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World
- By Douglas McCollam
- Essay
- New Grub Street
- How did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?
- By Christopher Shea
- Review
- Brief Encounters
- Short reviews of books about press photography in Northern Ireland, fame in America and journalist Rose Wilder Lane
- By James Boylan
Departments
- The Research Report
- When Does the White House Watchdog Bark?
- More often than you think
- By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil
- Darts and Laurels
- Darts & Laurels
- Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
- By Gloria Cooper
- Editorial
- Calling Uncle Sam
- How government can and should support a free press
- By The Editors
- On the Job
- The Wiki Defense
- What Floyd Landis taught the press about drug testing
- By Jennifer Hughes
- On the Job
- Unspoken
- Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse
- By Judith Matloff